In reply to Steve Towers. Yes, although understudied by historians, the public, unpredictable, and often disorganized nature of the emerging new mass culture environment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries sometimes allowed LGBTQ+ people to blend in and go unnoticed. In many ways, this offered more anonymity than the post-WWII popular culture landscape, […]
In reply to Tuck Frump. Trump didn’t pardon Peters, the Governor of Colorado commuted her sentence. She is and will forever more be a convicted felon. Trump threatened to withhold Federal funds if she was not let out of prison early. Curtis was simply trying to embarrass Shasta County after being censured.
In reply to Shawn Schwaller. I've always known "devil's chariot" as a type of Soviet helicopter. Roller skates, too? It took some deep digging with Google to find a reference to that. I'm trying to imagine Oscar Wilde roller skating with one of his boyfriends, blending in and going unnoticed. I can't make it work. […]